Articles for Gastroenterology

Social media is filled with health content ranging from useful workout tips to dubious claims about curing diseases through diet. How do we cut through the noise?

Vitamin D linked to healthier ageing through DNA protection, but experts caution against high-dose supplements.

To address gaps in current research, this study aims to compare the impact of exposure to glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA) versus sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhib...

A med student discusses how Isaac Asimov’s stories may be perhaps the most potent metaphor for the paradigm shift happening in medicine today.

This cohort study examines the association between soft drink consumption and major depressive disorder diagnosis and severity and whether this association is mediated by changes in the gut microbiota.

Whether you're a back, side or stomach sleeper, medical professionals explain how to position your body to guard against neck cricks, shoulder aches and other body pain and soreness.

A Food and Drug Administration official who stepped down less than two weeks ago is getting his job back as the agency’s top vaccine regulator. Dr.

Novo Nordisk’s obesity drug Wegovy was cleared by U.S. regulators to treat an increasingly common...

Dr. Sulagna Misra shares 5 things she wished her younger self knew, and that she can now confidently share with others in her field.

This study investigates whether partial colostrum feeding increases the risk of food allergy beyond cow's milk.

Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.

Marketing of on-demand telehealth prescriptions has rapidly become a constant presence for American consumers

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI, hold promise for transforming medical education and physician training in response to increasing health-care demands and shortages in the global health-care workforce. Meanwhile, challenges remain in the effective and equitable integration of AI technology into medical...

Vikram Rao, director of the UCSF Epilepsy Center, discusses why a third of seizure patients don’t respond...

New research from Stanford University estimates an increase to as many as 70,000 annual deaths across the U.S. from wildfire smoke as climate change...

The NIH is making a $50 million bet: Understanding environmental factors will help researchers better understand why some people have autism.

Chikungunya, which is endemic in parts of South America, Africa and Asia, may be the cause of a woman’s illness.

Now that I'm five years into practice, there are days I do not leave the house without seeing someone I have cared for, everywhere from the grocery store to the dentist.

Despite the well-known inverse relationship between both adenoma detection rate (ADR) and proximal serrated polyp detection rate (PSPDR) with post-colonoscopy colorectal cancers (PCCRCs), both quality indicators are not considered when determining surveillance intervals.

I'll always remember the year 2025 as the one where I began to wonder if I had been replaced by a robot.